Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessGain adjacent Wi-Fi radio proximity
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ExploitTransmit malformed Wi-Fi frames
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ExecutionTrigger out-of-bounds read in Wi-Fi driver
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ImpactCrash driver/system causing denial of service
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Bounds checking, read limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Collection The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the attacker to be on an adjacent network - within Wi-Fi radio range of the target or able to inject frames the target's Wi-Fi driver will process (e.g., same wireless LAN, shared hotspot, or rogue AP) - reflecting the AV:A vector rather than remote internet reachability. The target must have the Windows Wi-Fi driver active (wireless adapter enabled and processing frames). No authentication (PR:N) and no user interaction (UI:N) are needed, and attack complexity is low (AC:L). The primary limiting factors are physical/radio proximity and the requirement that Wi-Fi be in use; impact is confined to availability (system/driver crash), with no data exposure or code execution. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity denial-of-service issue, not a top-tier priority. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H, score 6.5) shows an adjacent-network, low-complexity, unauthenticated, no-interaction attack whose ONLY impact is availability (C:N/I:N/A:H) - i.e., a crash/DoS, with no data compromise. The signals are consistent and point AWAY from urgency: CISA's SSVC framework rates Exploitation as 'none', Automatable as 'no', and Technical Impact as only 'partial'. There is no CISA KEV listing and no public proof-of-concept identified in the provided data, so there is no evidence of active exploitation. The AV:A (adjacent) vector is a meaningful limiter - an attacker must be within Wi-Fi radio range rather than exploiting across the internet - which bounds the practical blast radius despite the lack of required privileges or user interaction. CONFLICT TO NOTE: the input Tags include 'Information Disclosure' and 'Buffer Overflow', but the CVSS vector explicitly sets C:N (no confidentiality impact) and the CWE is CWE-125 (out-of-bounds read) producing a DoS - the tags overstate the impact and should not drive prioritization. Net: a real but low-urgency patch item, prioritized by the ubiquity of Windows rather than by exploitation likelihood. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker within Wi-Fi radio range of a target (e.g., sharing a corporate wireless LAN, public hotspot, or operating a rogue access point) transmits specially crafted or malformed Wi-Fi frames that the Windows Wi-Fi driver mishandles, triggering an out-of-bounds read. This causes the driver or system to crash, denying service to the affected host. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and no authentication or user interaction is required (PR:N/UI:N), but proximity (AV:A) is mandatory. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
Adjacent-network denial of service in the Windows Wi-Fi driver affects Windows 10, Windows 11 (23H2 through 26H2), and Windows Server 2012 through 2025, where a crafted 802.11 frame reaching the wireless stack triggers an out-of-bounds read (CWE-125) that can crash the driver and render the wireless connection unavailable. Per the assessed CVSS:3.1 vector AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H, no authentication and no user interaction are required, and unauthenticated attackers within Wi-Fi radio range - on the same wireless LAN, a shared hotspot, or a rogue access point - can reach the target, making this a moderate-severity availability issue rather than a remotely exploitable internet-facing one. No public exploit code has been identified at the time of analysis (CISA SSVC: Exploitation=none, Automatable=no), though the vendor has released patched builds, and the impact is confined to availability with no assessed data exposure or code execution.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patches are available: apply the current Microsoft cumulative update so each platform reaches or exceeds the fixed build for its branch - for example 10.0.19044.7807 on Windows 10 21H2/22H2, 10.0.22631.7652 on Windows 11 23H2, 10.0.26100.9711 on Windows 11 24H2, 10.0.26200.9711 on 25H2, 10.0.28000.3231 on 26H1, 10.0.26300.9711 on 26H2, 10.0.17763.9376 on Windows Server 2019/Windows 10 1809, 10.0.14393.9612 on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 1607, 10.0.20348.5761 on Windows Server 2022, 10.0.26100.33650 on Windows Server 2025, 6.3.9600.23470 on Windows Server 2012 R2, and 6.2.9200.26434 on Windows Server 2012, per the advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-83703. Where immediate patching is not possible, restrict exposure by disabling the wireless adapter on hosts that do not require Wi-Fi (trade-off: loss of wireless connectivity, acceptable for fixed-purpose servers and kiosks), connecting only to trusted, WPA3-enterprise or otherwise controlled WLANs and avoiding untrusted public hotspots where rogue APs and over-the-air frame injection are easiest to stage (trade-off: reduces mobility and user convenience), and deploying wireless intrusion detection or rogue-AP monitoring to flag anomalous frame injection on the local RF environment (trade-off: detection is probabilistic and requires WLAN sensor coverage). Applying the vendor update is the only action that removes the out-of-bounds read itself; the compensating controls only reduce the likelihood that an adjacent attacker can deliver the triggering frames.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is a classic out-of-bounds read (CWE-125) in the Windows Wi-Fi driver, the kernel-mode component responsible for parsing and processing 802.11 management, control, and data frames received by the wireless network adapter. Because the driver processes frames from the radio medium before any higher-layer authentication or association is guaranteed, an attacker who can inject or relay malformed frames into the target's receive path can drive the parser past the bounds of an allocated buffer, causing the driver to read memory outside its intended structure and, in the assessed outcome, fault and fail. The affected technology stack spans nearly every supported Windows client and server SKU that ships the inbox Wi-Fi driver, from Windows 10 1607/1809/21H2/22H2 and Windows 11 23H2, 24H2, 25H2, 26H1, and 26H2 through Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, 2022, and 2025, including their Server Core installations. Exploitation is bounded by the AV:A vector: the adversary must be within radio range or otherwise able to inject frames the target's driver will process, and the target must have an active wireless adapter. Although some source tagging references information disclosure and buffer overflow, the authoritative assessment constrains the outcome to availability impact only - no confidentiality or integrity loss, and no code execution - which is consistent with a read-bounds fault in a frame parser that does not yield an attacker-controlled write primitive.
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Severity by source
AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Adjacent Wi-Fi radio range gives AV:A; no auth or interaction needed (PR:N/UI:N/AC:L); out-of-bounds read yields DoS only, so C:N/I:N/A:H.
Primary rating from Vendor (microsoft).
CVSS VectorVendor: microsoft
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2DescriptionCVE.org
Out-of-bounds read in Windows Wi-Fi Driver allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over an adjacent network.
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EUVD-2026-99959
GHSA-xpg8-59gf-2j67
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